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		kergonath on Oct 6, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Conterintuitive facts in mathematics, CS, and phys... I have been to the US quite regularly, and been living in the UK for a number of years, and I have never seen someone using pounds as a unit of force instead of a unit of mass meaning roughly 500g, give or take. Second meaning was about 1.20€. FWIW, the pound is a proper unit of mass: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_(mass) .

syncsynchalt on Oct 6, 2021 [–]

I'm a civil engineer. In statute terms pound is the unit of force and slug is the unit of mass. That might have colored my thinking.

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